332. Reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
in the Legislative Assemblies of the States.-

(1) Seats shall be
reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes,
_282[except the Scheduled Tribes in the autonomous districts of
Assam], in the Legislative Assembly of every State_283***.

(2) Seats shall be reserved also for the autonomous districts in the
Legislative Assembly of the State of Assam.

(3) The number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes or the
Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly of any State under clause
(1) shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total
number of seats in the Assembly as the population of the Scheduled
Castes in the State or of the Scheduled Tribes in the State or part of
the State, as the case may be, in respect of which seats are so
reserved, bears to the total population of the State.

_284[(3A) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (3), until the
taking effect, under article 170, of the re-adjustment, on the basis
of the first census after the year 2000, of the number of seats in the
Legislative Assemblies of the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya,
Mizoram and Nagaland, the seats which shall be reserved for the
Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly of any such State shall
be,-

(a) if all the seats in the Legislative Assembly of such State in
existence on the date of coming into force of the Constitution
(Fifty-seventh Amendment) Act, 1987 (hereafter in this clause referred
to as the existing Assembly) are held by members of the Scheduled
Tribes, all the seats except one;

(b) in any other case, such number of seats as bears to the total
number of seats, a proportion not less than the number (as on the said
date) of members belonging to the Scheduled Tribes in the existing
Assembly bears to the total number of seats in the existing Assembly.]

_285[(3B) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (3), until the
re-adjustment, under article 170, takes effect on the basis of the
first census after the year 2000, of the number of seats in the
Legislative Assembly of the State of Tripura, the seats which shall be
reserved for the Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly shall
be, such number of seats as bears to the total number of seats, a
proportion not less than the number, as on the date of coming into
force of the Constitution (Seventy-second Amendment) Act, 1992, of
members belonging to the Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly
in existence on the said date bears to the total number of seats in
that Assembly.]

(4) The number of seats reserved for an autonomous district in the
Legislative Assembly of the State of Assam shall bear to the total
number of seats in that Assembly a proportion not less than the
population of the district bears to the total population of the State.

(5) The constituencies for the seats reserved for any autonomous
district of Assam shall not comprise any area outside that district
_286***.

(6) No person who is not a member of a Scheduled Tribe of any
autonomous district of the State of Assam shall be eligible for
election to the Legislative Assembly of the State from any
constituency of that district_286***.